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Bonefsh Scampi Bead Chain

Shrimp · Bonefish · Permit · Redfish · Sea Trout · Snook · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard saltwater flats hook, straight eye, #4-8
  • Thread Tan 140 denier (3/0)

Materials

  • Eyes Silver metal tape (Small silver bead-chain)
  • Tail Pearl anti static bag strip (Short length of pearl Mylar tubing)
  • Body Pearl anti static bag strip (Pearl flat diamond braid)
  • Butt accent Orange permanent marker (Thread band)
  • Wing Tan carapace (Rabbit zonker strip)
  • Overwing Cream semperfli cashmere monkey (Small clump craft fur)
  • Flash Pearl flashabou (1 strand Krystal Flash per side)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and bind the bead-chain eyes at the one-third mark with figure-8 wraps.
  2. Tie in a short pearl Mylar-tubing tail at the bend, fray the tip, and wrap back to the eyes leaving a narrow band of orange thread showing at the butt.
  3. Thread a tan rabbit zonker onto the hook point and slide it to the bend so a fingernail of leather sits flat as the tail wing.
  4. Catch in the diamond braid behind the eyes, wrap back to just shy of the tail, then forward again for a full pearly body and tie off behind the eyes.
  5. Bind a sparse cream craft-fur overwing on top with one strand of pearl flash per side, extending just past the wing.
  6. Figure-8 a small head around the eyes, whip finish and cement.

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